Word: toying
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...high it will go not even Brigadier General Joseph Wilson Byron, head of the Army Exchange Service, could accurately guess. But General Byron, a quiet, easygoing West Pointer who left the service to run his family's leather business after World War I and returned last July, can toy with some intriguing figures...
Escape. In Chicago, Walter Holberg pointed two toy pistols at a jeweler, got himself arrested, explained he was tired of doing housework for his wife, wanted to live in jail...
...plot such as this gives Orson Welles much opportunity to present emotion on the screen, to revel in lights and shadows. He does so unrelentingly. The result is that the characters and the situations are never quite believable because of over-dramatization. Like a child with a new toy, Orson Welles uses the new technical discoveries beyond the point of satiation. He has not yet realized that many things are best said simply...
...voices faded away just as if someone had turned off a radio, and all Vag could hear was the toy music of the distant phonograph, and the constant purring of the refrigerator. Then Vag remembered what it was he had forgotten to do. He had forgotten to sign for the beer. The devil with it. This one would be on the house. For the first time in two years Vag felt like a guest, and he knew that his host had the most wonderful house in the world, even if it did run on assessments...
When death, as it must to all dogs, came to William Randolph Hearst's toy dachshund Helen, the aged publisher last week wrote an elegy...